How to set the background color in the textarea field in bootstrap

Question

you need to specify the background color in the "My text area" field in bootstrap this is the text area field

<div class="form-group">
    <div class="col-xs-12">
     <textarea class="form-control" id="exampleTextarea" rows="6"  placeholder="Message"></textarea>
    </div>
   </div>

Answer 1

Add this class.

textarea#exampleTextarea {
    background: gray;
}

Or you can also use this.

#exampleTextarea {
    background: gray;
}

Answer 2

try the following:

textarea.form-control {
color: #63AEEB
}

Answer 3

you can try it

textarea#exampleTextarea{ 
    background-color:gray !important;
}